Exploration of the Americas

The exploration of the Americas includes:

Earth

Exploration	Europe Americas Africa Asia Oceania Antarctica — World oceans

Colonization	Europe Americas Africa Asia Oceania Antarctica World oceans Subterranea

Decolonization	Europe Americas Africa Asia Oceania

General
topics

Exploration	Maritime history (European) Age of Discovery Solar System discovery

Colonization	Antiquity — Imperialism Chartered companies Intervention philosophy Colonialism chronology history empires Current: Non-Self-Governing Dependent Space Station — Space Militarization Space Commercialization

Empires in Modernity	Overseas, major: British Dutch French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Overseas, minor: American Australian Austro-Hungarian Belgian Danish New Zealand Norwegian Polish-Lithuanian Swedish Mostly contiguous: American Chinese Japanese Ottoman Russian South African

Decolonization	Wars of national liberation — Predecessors of sovereign states in Europe in South America Sovereign states formation dates

Postcolonialism	Independence Nation-building Post-communism Postcolonialism (international relations)

Terra nullius Indigenous peoples Uncontacted people

Outer space

Exploration	Mercury Venus Moon Lagrangian points Mars Phobos Ceres Asteroids Outer Solar System: Jupiter Europa Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune trans-Neptunian objects Pluto

Colonization	Mercury Venus Moon Lagrangian points Mars Phobos Asteroids Outer Solar System: Jupiter Europa Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune trans-Neptunian objects Pluto

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